If you’re experimenting with Alexander Technique directions, walking is an excellent activity to use for those experiments, and equally important, to test whether a direction is actually us…

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14.03.2024

Annie Get Your Gun – Body Learning Blog

I stumbled onto this photo of Annie Oakley and couldn’t stop thinking about the amazing ability it must take to hit a target behind you, something she did in all her performances. As any mar…

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29.01.2024

Mind Your Mind – Body Learning Blog

F. Matthias Alexander, the developer of the Alexander Technique, believed that if we want to improve the way we function, we need to make the best use of our ability to think. Only then can we eng…

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06.02.2023

A Fork in the Road – Body Learning Blog

Suppose a man starts out to reach a certain destination and comes to a place where the road branches into two. Not knowing the way, he takes the wrong road of the two and gets lost. He asks the way…

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29.11.2022

There and Back Again, My Journey through Neck Surgery – Part 2 – Body Learning Blog

In a previous post about my neck surgery in early March of this year, There and Back Again, My Journey through Neck Surgery, I expressed some concern about my ability to teach the Alexander Techniq…

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29.11.2022

Gravity’s Sad Story – Part 2 – Body Learning Blog

Eight years ago I managed to arrange an interview with Gravity, Gravity’s Sad Story, during which he expressed a great deal of unhappiness about his negative image in the popular imagination,…

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29.11.2022

A Simple Hack That Brings A New Ease Into Your Walking – Body Learning Blog

The late Alexander Technique teacher Marjorie Barstow would sometimes say to a student who was about to walk: “Your legs are just tagging along.” She also had figured out a very simple …

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29.11.2022

The Veep’s Speech – Body Learning Blog

You may remember The King’s Speech, a 2010 movie about King George VI who, after his brother abdicated the throne in 1936, needed to be able to speak effectively in public despite the …

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29.11.2022

There and Back Again – My Alexander Technique Journey through Neck Surgery – Body Learning Blog

It was a Monday evening in mid-February of 2020. Our four year old grandson had just spent a couple of days with us, and my wife Anne was relaxing after the excitement and extra activity. A couple…

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29.11.2022

The Burden of Shame – Body Learning Blog

I’m thinking about how, sometimes, when we look at our history, we have a visceral response of shame. It’s no wonder we don’t want to look at it. Shame begins in the body. Shame’s first language is…

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29.11.2022

Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Slurs? – Body Learning Blog

The use of imagery to teach or learn the Alexander Technique is, to put it mildly, a controversial topic. The diverse views were on full display in recent exchanges on the Alexander Technique Forum…

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29.11.2022

It’s a Rushin’ Plot! – Body Learning Blog

I’ve been somewhat obsessed with my walking patterns over the past couple of months, ever since I realized that for for most of my life, I’d been pushing my torso a forward a bit when I…

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29.11.2022

What’s So Special About The Alexander Technique? – Body Learning Blog

How am I functioning now? How can I improve the way I’m functioning? Those two projects, not necessarily in that order, could provide a 5 second description of what a student of the Alexander…

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29.11.2022

What are you saying when you don’t say anything at all? – Body Learning Blog

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet We humans do a lot of things while upright. This video provides a unique and clea…

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Walking the Floor with Alexander – Part 2 – Body Learning Blog

Annie Get Your Gun – Body Learning Blog

Mind Your Mind – Body Learning Blog

A Fork in the Road – Body Learning Blog

There and Back Again, My Journey through Neck Surgery – Part 2 – Body Learning Blog

Gravity’s Sad Story – Part 2 – Body Learning Blog

A Simple Hack That Brings A New Ease Into Your Walking – Body Learning Blog

The Veep’s Speech – Body Learning Blog

There and Back Again – My Alexander Technique Journey through Neck Surgery – Body Learning Blog

The Burden of Shame – Body Learning Blog

Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Slurs? – Body Learning Blog

It’s a Rushin’ Plot! – Body Learning Blog

What’s So Special About The Alexander Technique? – Body Learning Blog

What are you saying when you don’t say anything at all? – Body Learning Blog

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